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NEW DELHI: In an unusual case, a 12-year-old boy received the National Bravery Award, but his name was not announced for security reasons as he is a key witness to the September 2008 Delhi serial blasts. The 12-year-old boy, a prime eyewitness to the September 2008 blasts at Barakhamba Road here, had helped police to draw sketches of the two suspected terrorists who kept bombs in a dustbin which exploded a few minutes later. His name was not announced nor was a citation read out for him during the ceremony.

NEW DELHI: The court hearing the Nitish Katara murder case today sought an explanation from D P Yadav, former MP and father of main accused Vikas Yadav, for commenting on the merit of the case and asked him to file his response by October 16. Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur took exception to Yadav's comment on the merits of the case in a press conference called by him on Tuesday where he said that Ajay Katara was planted...

LUCKNOW | BAREILLY : After a key witness in the rape case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu was killed, the 16-year-old victim demanded a CBI probe into the matter, even as police conducted searches in Shahjahanpur and Lucknow ashrams to nab the assailants today. "I want the Prime Minister to ensure justice to me by ordering a CBI probe into the 2013 (rape) incident," the victim said in Bareilly. Meanwhile, police launched a manhunt to nab the three assailants who killed 35-year-old Kripal Singh in Puwayan area of Shahjahanpur when he was on his way home from the market on July 10 night.

BAREILLY: A key witness in the rape case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who was shot at by unidentified assailants in Shahjahanpur district, succumbed to injuries, the third witness in the case who has been killed. 35-year-old Kripal Singh was shot at by two motorcycle-borne persons in Puwayan area in Shahjahanpur when he was on his way home from the market on Friday night, police said today. Before escaping, the duo warned him against deposing against Asaram. Singh, who had sustained serious bullet injuries, was rushed from Shahjahanpur to a Bareilly hospital where he succumbed at around 2325 hours last night, Bareilly Circle Officer Mukul Dwivedi said.

The Cabinet has cleared an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPC) which seeks to prevent witnesses from going back on their statements. This is a change which has major implications. The immediate provocation for bringing in this amendment is the embarrassment caused to the BJP by the Gujarat Best Bakery case in which the key witness went back on her statement fearing a threat to her life. It led to the acquittal of the persons accused of burning a bakery during the Gujarat riots which had resulted in the death of many, including the kith and kin of the witness in question.

CHANDIGARH: After two witnesses decided to depose against him for his alleged involvement in 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, there is more trouble for Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. Now, a US report has referred to his role. The US department of state, in its recently released "Country reports on Human Rights Practices-2007" has taken note of Tytler's alleged involvement in riots, while talking of India's track record in safeguarding human rights. The report, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour on March 11, 2008 states: "In November a key witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler resurfaced two months after the CBI declared that he was unreachable.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court, on Friday, refused to quash or grant an interim stay on the look-out notices issued by the police in capital against all the witnesses in the Jessica Lal murder case. Justice Vikramjit Sen, however, asked the Delhi police to file a reply on the application moved in this regard by Bina Ramani, a key witness in the murder case. The court posted the matter for further hearing to April 5.The court maintained that Ramani's plea cannot be conceded at this stage keeping in view the fact that the allegations of "tampering of evidence" by some persons to save the accused was under a crucial stage of investigation at the Mehrauli police station.

NEW DELHI: The fugitive Union minister, Shibu Soren, continued to torment the UPA government, as a belligerent Opposition paralysed the proceedings of the two Houses of Parliament in support of its demand that PM Manmohan Singh unravel the mystery behind his missing colleague. The UPA government again had to face an embarrassing moment in the Rajya Sabha when a determined Opposition forced the prime minister to leave the House hastily, in order to pre-empt any attempt by the NDA to force him to give a reply on the Soren episode.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted two weeks time to the Gujarat government to file an amended appeal challenging acquittal of all the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case A Bench headed by Chief Justice V N Khare said the state government should file the amended appeal by October 6. It fixed October 9 to take up the petition filed by National Human Rights Commission and a key witness in the Best Bakery case, Zahira Sheikh. The court also questioned the chief secretary and the Director General of Police of Gujarat regarding the mishandling of the case.

AHMEDABAD: A key witness in the Gulbarg massacre case has told a special court that chief minister Narendra Modi had abused former MP Ahsan Jafri when he called him for help on February 28, 2002. Imtiyaz Saeedkhan Pathan, the first star witness to give testimony, recounted events of that day and said when they asked Jafri why police hadn't come to their rescue, the former parliamentarian told them that he would call up Modi for help. "When I asked him what Modi said, he said there was no question of help, instead he got abuses," Pathan told court.